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Originally Posted by 240Joe
You said the valves were shot but then you said there was a lot of carbon, perhaps preventing them from seating. Which was it? I'm curious as to why you didn't try to clean the valve seats and put new guides in. Seems like it would have been a lot cheaper.
Also, did you ever really try the Italian tune up. It is not unusual for it to take awhile to get carbon out from under the valve, but usually it gets blown out eventually.
And do you think this job was really worth it? First of all, someone here said the head was about $600. If that is the case, do you think it was worth it given you put in maybe 10 or 20 hours of labor?
If it would have been my car, I would have adjusted the valves and pushed it hard on the highway for several weeks. Then adjust the valves again. If it didn't start to run better by then, it would have been junk yard time.
240Joe
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Hi Joe, wish you had chimed in when I was asking for advice. The head was diagnosed with "significant corrosion" (see my other thread about returning my core), so there was a little more going on here than just valves. But, I did have a good feeling that the valves weren't seating at all (see the beginnig post with the compression numbers) and I felt like taking a chance by bandaiding could cause me to actually do the job twice, which I would feel like wouldn't be worth it. But doing the job once, sure, I felt like it was worth it. I did try the Italian Tuneup--for most of the first six months I owned the car, I droved it like I stoled it, as they say. Minor improvement, but no real gains. I went with a reman from Metric because I spoke directly with a couple of guys who had "local" machine shops do a head rebuild and the cars actually ended up worse off and they did the job again. While I enjoy wrenching on my cars in spare time, ain't no way I was going to do this twice. Maybe a case of the "might as wells" but if you've got the head off, why not make sure it's done right? JMHO.